This  year is going to be the year where I break out.  I'm putting that out in the universe right now.  I'm going to make steps to make sure that happens.  I'm going to keep writing, and for every no I get, I'm going to work that much harder so I can receive that glorious "yes!"  I've met so many wonderful people over the past year--folks who have let me vent and rave and express my fears about this business; people who have held me up and saw the beauty that I couldn't see in my writing and in myself.  I thank these people, and I thank the people I will meet this year who will help me on my journey.  I truly appreciate this experience, and though I am not a religious person, I thank God for giving me this gift and this opportunity, because I honestly don't know what else I can do. I'm a writer.  It's the first thing I think about when I wake up and the last thing I think about when I go to bed.  I have notebooks and computers and Post-Its all over my house with notes and blurbs and quotes.  I get inspiration from work, from riding the subway, from walking down the street, from that new jam I bop to as I write.  I love it, but I also have to realize I can't get so caught up in my writing that I forget to live my life as well.  So this year, I strive to find that proper balance, because success is always sweeter when someone shares it with you.

Anyway, I hope everyone has a wonderful yearand it will be the best one yet!

Sav

Available Now!

The last thing Greek Alejandro Melonakos expected to
find when shopping for food for his restaurant was the
love of his life, but that was exactly who he found when
he spotted Black American Samara Grossman across the
marketplace. Will he be able to convince her of his love
and gain hers in return during her five days on vacation,
or will his serendipitous find be all for naught?

So things haven't been going badly for me on the writing front.  I'd had a book signing over Memorial Day weekend at home in Cola, and it wen tvery well!  I also did a in-studio radio interview with Victoria Howard Robinson for Studio V up here in Boston.  I also found out the Richland County Public Library in Cola ordered my book to stock in their library system.  That's so exciting!  I'm also going to be a participant in the Harlem Book Fair-Roxbury on the 30th, so if you're going to bein the Boston area, stop by Roxbury Community College in Roxbury and check it out!

Other than that, the book is getting very nice reviews, and while they make me happy, they also humble me.  I'm very grateful.

Anyway, have a happy Sunday!  And tomorrow is Father's Day!

:)

Sav

Just Published...

Being Plumville

Savannah J. Frierson

Living in the small, southern town of Plumville is effortless, seamless, and safe … if you follow the rules. You're given them from birth, and anything that could possibly make you break them is removed from your life—even if it's your best friend.

Such is the case for Benjamin Drummond and Coralee Simmons, two best friends separated during childhood because Benjamin is white, Coralee is black, and relationships between the two races are unspoken in its taboo. However, fifteen years later during the turbulent 1960s, Benjamin and Coralee are reunited, and despite their upbringing, neither are able to deny what they had in their innocent youth, nor suppress the desire to rekindle it—maybe even into something more.

The reunion forces the pair and those around them to examine the consequences of following the status quo versus following their hearts. Is friendship too high a price to pay to be Plumville? Is love? Will Benjamin and Coralee become who Plumville raised them to be, or who they were born to be?

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This blog's been dead for a way long time, so now I'm going to dust it off and write something :-P.

So here's the thing.

This past weekend, well, actually this past week, I finished a novel.  This novel is one I have been working on since 2004, and the first part of it was actually submitted as my senior thesis.  It's definitely different from the part I submitted for thesis--it is more commercial, not as thought-probing as the thesis one, I think, anyway.  I'm too close to it to have a real, genuine objective view about it.

 

So, now, I have two completed novels, because the first one I completed I also started in 2004 for National Novel Writing Month.  So, technically, I started that one later, yet ended it first (April 2006).  It's interesting because I have to edit and re-edit, and the cost to copyedit is way more money than I have.  Then I have to figure out how to market my work.  It's all very puzzling, I'll admit, but as my sis said--how many people can say they've written one novel, let alone two?

 

This is true, and I am blessed by that.  I still need to edit this second novel (heck, I'm still going over the first one!) but then it's back to the grindstone in terms of either finding an agent or self-publishing myself.  I don't know, but . . . I'm working on two more novels as I type , and then in November is another National Novel Writing Month.  I can start a brand new novel or use that month to write 50K on an existing novel.  We shall see.

 

Anyway . . . yeah . . .  that's about it, really.  Maybe some good luck will come my way :).

 

sav